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    "localId": "83467",
    "label": "Text Page of Shahnamah Preface",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.600.2B"
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    "id": "83467",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.600.2B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Text Page of Shahnamah Preface",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.600 is the 1st page of the preface ordered by Baysunghur in 829 AH/AD 1425-1426. The text is largely written in black Nasta'liq script with incidentals in blue and gold. The preface ends on fol. 14a with a colophon.",
    "provenance": "Ahmad [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with name on fol. 1a]; Unknown owner, 1789 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership entry dated 12 Jumadá I 1204 AH/AD 1789 on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th century AH/AD 16th century (Safavid)",
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    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "folios (leaves)"
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.5,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 13/16 x W: 7 1/2 in. (32.5 x 19 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
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        "MIS"
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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